Baku/25.04.23/Turan: The Sputnik-Armenia agency reported on the evening of April 25 that Colonel General Alexander Lentsov was appointed the new commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Nagorno-Karabakh.
The agency referred to a source in the RF Ministry of Defense, although there is no such information on the website of the RF Ministry of Defense.
General Lentsov until 2020 was Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces. Participated in hostilities in the first and second wars in Chechnya, in the Russian military operation in Syria.
Lentsov will replace Major General Andrei Volkov, who has commanded peacekeepers in Karabakh since January 2022. -0-
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